Date: Tue, 7 Mar 1995 11:25:04 -0500
From: David B. O'Donnell
To: Multiple recipients of list GLB-NEWS
Subject: Utah Law Invalid? Olympics?
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Three Reports in One: 1) Is the Utah law invalid? 2) National and gay
activists begin work against the Utah law, and 3) What's this about Utah
getting the Olympics?
2) Utah and National Activists Start Planning Actions Against the Law
Representatives of Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund and of the
National Gay and Lesbian Task Force are going to be working with Utah Gay*
activists in the coming days and weeks on further steps to fighting the Utah
law. First of all they are contacting the Utah Attorney General's office,
urging the A.G. to declare the law invalid based on the time of it's passage.
They will also be discussing plans for a "Olympics Out of Utah" campaign
should the A.G.'s office decide the law is valid.
*using the inclusive meaning of Gay: homosexual/bisexual/transgender
3) What's this about Utah getting the Olympics?
A Salt Lake Olympic Bid Committee has been trying for years to get the Winter
Olympics for Salt Lake. They have been lobbying extra hard for the past
couple of years. A decision on the 2002 Winter Games will be made on June 16
in Budapest and Salt Lake is now one of only four cities left in the running
for the 2002 Games. Salt Lake apparently is either the top contender or one
of two top contenders for the bid, and plans are already being made in Salt
Lake for the celebration in June. The Salt Lake bid committee seems pretty
sure Salt Lake is finally going to be chosen as the site for the Winter
Olympics.
An ironic note: chefs from Salt Lake's Gastronomy Inc. (wonderful food, great
Restaurants) prepared food for entertaining the International Olympic
Committee while the Salt Lake Bid Committee and officials from Salt Lake were
at the last Winter Olympics, held in Finland. The Chefs, their equipment and
all of the food were flown from Salt Lake to Helsinki for several days of
wonderful food to entertain the IOC. The owners of Gastronomy Inc. are
"family."